Christmas Wishes Meme

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Gacked from fikgirl.

Step One

Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two

Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

My wishes:

1. An mp3 player that plays Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) files (and will talk to a Linux system). They probably exist only in Japan.
2. DVD boxed set(s); there are a bunch coming out soon (as well as ones I keep on putting off): Space Above and Beyond; New Tomorrow People; UFO; Star Cops; OS Tomorrow People Seasons 5,6,7; Blake's 7 Season 3
3. The full set of Girl Genius.
4. Cinnamon candy and/or chewing gum; it's plentiful in the USA, but nonexistant here. About the only cinnamon things we get here are cinnamon scrolls.
5. A recording (video or DVD) of the Doctor Who special "The Christmas Invasion", as soon as possible after it airs in the UK, because I have no idea when Auntie ABC will show it here.
6. For synaesthete7 to finish "Incarnations".
7. a Bible-related icon; I'm not sure what. Some ideas:
   • "In the Begining was the Word" in Hebrew, Greek and English; that would be Really Cool.
   • A picture of the galaxy with the caption "Behold, it was very good." (given by vilakins)
   • something with a scroll or a Bible with something like "Written on the heart" ("I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts" or "...in their hearts I will write it")
8. someone to complete one (or more) stories based on my orphan plot bunnies from last year; see here (1), here (2), here (3) and here (4). Consider them to be challenges. And don't tell me if you're working on one, not until it's finished.
9. I wish for detailed, insightful feedback/reviews on my stories. Or squeeback, or an amusing flame. Whatever you can spare.
10. A story written Just For Me. Especially if it's Avon/Cally. Or 9th-Doctor.

My contact address is here (under Cat-Out-Of-The-Bag Productions).

Comments

[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

Think I'll wait till, like, December for this.

Meanwhile, looking back at what I put in the list when this meme did the rounds last year (November 29th)...

1) A long, healthy and happy life for all friends and family>

Well, we're all still alive, except, in the friends part, Mike Sheard.

2) To clear off the credit card bills.
3) Someone to release Le Samourai on DVD

This latter has happened.

4) A handmade katana by one of the few remaining Japanese swordmasters
5) Better self-discipline
6) To be asked to write a Bond movie
7) Bush's second term to be a bit more sensible than the first (Reagan sort of managed it)
8) Blair and Blunkett out

Well, Blunkett was out a week or so after I posted, then back, and now he's out again. Blair hasn't gone yet.

9) Proper crisp snow to walk in the countryside in
10) My local Oxfam (Wetherby) to start selling that Strength 5 filter coffee that some of the larger city Oxfams sell.

The latter has now happened, but only last month, so hardly for Xmas 2004...